I never really got to know my father or discovered anything of his early life while he was alive

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Now, long after he died,  all that now evidences his life is a small collection of his photographs, most from his time during WW2 on a converted trawler on convoy patrol duties in the North Atlantic.

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I created this installation work in response to those photographs and the concept of the photograph as a trace - a remnant of a moment in time. 

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Trace also means to discover through investigation.

 

I wanted to know more of him and represent his life through an artwork so I adopted the approach of a 'crazy-wall' -  a large board used by detectives to link key pieces of evidence to time, place and person.

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By combining his photographs with contemporary found images, research documents, maps and fragments of information such as scribbled addresses on the back of an old wallet, I built a picture of his life.

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